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REQUITE
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I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they requite ... he / she / it requites
Past simple: requited
Past participle: requited
-ing form: requiting
Sense 1
Meaning:
Make repayment for or return something
Synonyms:
repay; requite
Classified under:
Verbs of buying, selling, owning
Hypernyms (to "requite" is one way to...):
give (transfer possession of something concrete or abstract to somebody)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "requite"):
pay (make a compensation for)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Derivation:
requital (an act of requiting; returning in kind)
